Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-11-23


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A LARGE vein Of inc quality of coal was
discovered at Cayuga, Ind, on the 10th, 1t
was said on good authority that the new
coal fields embraced a territory of ten thou
sand acres ~ III
FOREST fires We're again raging on the
10th in the neighborhood of Hillsboro, ILL.,,
and Gresham and Nashville townships
were suffering greatly .SI#5
A aAs-PRR bomb, with fuse attached, was
found on the 10th at theidoor Of an orphan
asylum in . suburb Of Cincinnati s 4
The National Woman's Christian Temper
anoe Union met at Nashville, Tenn, on he
10Th An address was delivered by Miss
Willard, who urged that the Prohibition
party should declare as its ultimate aim two
amendments to the National constitution,
one establishing universal prohibition and
the other entranchising women
SIX men were blown to pieces on the 18th
by an explosion in the Hancock Chemical
Company's packing house for dynamite at
IshpeIuing, Mich No trace of the men or
building was found, such was the force of
the shock. =, .F-a- - q ,--,7.
The buildings of the Negele Brewing Com
pany at Buffalo, N. Y, were burned on the
16th Loss, ST 10000; insurance, 800, OOO
ISAAC SICKLE, wholesaler of laces and vel
vets at New York, failed on the 10Th for
$115,OOO
FIRES were raging all over Faulkner Coun-
ty, Ark. on the 10th, burning houses, crops
ETC., and the inhabitants were forced to
alb andon their homes and seek places OF
safety.
A MOVEMENT was inaugurated in New York
City on the 10th to form society to OPP
pose the Anarchists and Socialists in their
endeavor to overthrow the existing order
of government
HE testimony of James Whyte on the
10th to the effect that he had been hired by
the president of the Lambert & Bishop
Fence Company to set fire to the company's
mill caused a big sensation at Joliet, Ill
In a political quarrel on the 10th at Lex
ington, Ky, Thomas Green. correspondent
of a Cincinnati paper, shot and killed Lew
Baldwin, OF Nicholasville, KY.
The inquest on. the body of Louis Lingg,
the Chicago Anarchist, resulted on the 10th
in averdict of death caused by the explo-
sion of dynamite bomb tired with suicidal
intent How he got possession Of the bomb
was still mystery.
The Erie Pa) Rubber Company's factory
was destroyed by fire on the 10Th. Loss,
800, 600
ON the 10th Carroll County, Ind, was
suffering from a water famine The wells,
cisterns and streams were all drying up and
fires were sweeping the country.
THE National Fishery Association, in ses-
sion on the 10th at New York, adopted
resolutions calling for protection against
the importation of foreign fish and for such
measures as will secure to American fisher
men the same rights in foreign ports that
foreign vessels enjoy in our harbors
A l..I1 H..
of the Cheyenne River Indian agency at
Fort Bennett Loss, 100000
AN italian workman fell nine hundred
feet down the Hecla mine shaft at Ishpem-
ing, Mich, on the 18th, and was killed, and
three men fell down the shaft in the Anvil
mine at Bessemer, Mich, aud lost their
lives. y
JOHANN MOST, the Anarchist, was arrested
in New York on the 18th on an Indictment
for having made an incendiary speech cal
c''latad IN incite a riot. The prisoner was
locked up
The annual report on the 18th of James
W. Hyatt, Treasurer of the United States,
shows that the revenues of the Government
for the fiscal year ended June 80, 1887,
were 1871, 4O3, 277; ordinary expenditures,
$267 ,932, 179; surplus receipts available
for the reduction of the public debt. $1O3,-
All ,O97. AS compared with the previous
year the receipts incl ased $34 963, $50,
the expenditures $25, AS, O41 and the sur
plus revenues SO, SD, 800. During the year
33,216,S31 standard silver dollars were
coined
On the 18th two dynamite bombs were
found at St Joseph, Mo-, one having been
placed at the entrance to the city hail.
The implements were exploded and showed
terrific force The chief of police notified
his men to shoot all Anarchists who re-
sisted arrest
w. F. KEEFER's wooden mills and Patter-
son & Sessions -four mill at Camlus, N. Y,
were destroyed by fire on the 18th Loss,
500, 900.
ROBERT BONNER on the 18th announced
his retirement from the New York Ledger.
In the future the paper will be conducted
by his three sona
REV. J. c. KENDALL, of Hartford, Conn,
pastor of Unitarian church, who COM
pared the Chicago Anarchists with the
Saviour, was on the 18th called upon to re-
sign his pulpit
A FIRE on the 18th at Memphis, Tenn,
destroyed the buildings of the Merchants
Cotton Compress and Storage Company
with IL, 200 bales of cotton and several
compresses Loss, $500, 1000.
Ann BNAO SCACOCAWy u'SCOv0A0A ASoA
Prescott, A. T., was on the 18th said to be
the richest ever found in the country. The
ledge could be traced for nearly two miles
and the quartz rock taken out averaged
800, 600 ton r.r"' ~
Two MEN were killed and others were
fatally injured by the fall Of q scafKold At
Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 18th, and at SYRIA
cuse, N. Y, Che falling Of the walls OF
building that was recently burned caused
the death OF two men. ...s..
FORTY buildings in Newvadavihe, Col,
were burned on the 18th. ~ 30 t-.s-s---.-,
AMONG the suicides on the 18th were the
following John Reynolds, at Pleasanton,
Ia. for fear of arrest; Mrs H. Hartley, at
Nebraska City, Neb., owing to quarrel
with her husband; Mrs. George MCPHERSON,
at Des Moines. La, cause unknown; and
Captain A. H. Mills, at Detroit, Mich, after
killing Mrs. Austin Rising, with whom he
was infatuated IT, .
ToMPx1NsvnLE the county seat of Monroe
County, Ky, was nearly destroyed ON the
17Gh by fire set by burglars, who blew
open safe and stole $312 600. The COURT
house was burned with all Of the county
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